Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation

Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by Leary on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#21853197)

Bilingual native speaker here, got 0/3 of my attempts.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by tony on Saturday December 21, 2019 @04:06PM (#21853368)

Non-native speaker but probably tried 20 times? I had to force it to make it work.

I'm very very sure I can do the first tone.

Would love it if this thing did work reliably though. Also would be nice to have one Cantonese.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:39AM (#21856385)

Hi, yes the classifier needs some improving. We expect that it would be much more difficult to make an accurate classifier for Cantonese, although we could make a website which presents Cantonese words/phrases and lets you see your (and the teacher's) pitch contour. Would that be of interest?

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:36AM (#21856372)

Hi, yes, unfortunately the classifier is not very good at the moment. We will work on improving it.

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